Effective March 1, Delta, the second largest U.S. airline by passenger traffic, said it will require passengers seeking to fly with pets to present additional documents outlining the passenger’s need for the animal and proof of its training and vaccinations, 48 hours prior to the flight.

People love their animals. What they often do not comprehend is the impact an animal can have on others.

My wife has severe animal allergies. The allergies are so bad she went anaphylactic on a flight over the Atlantic due to an undeclared purse dog when we were coming back from teaching in Jamaica. When an emergency inhaler did not do the trick, we used her Epipen and the flight crew gave her oxygen.

I thought she would die. Anaphylaxis is terrible it’s like a fish out of water, struggling to breath. It was the absolute scariest couple of hours of my life.

Similarly, she cannot go into a house or a hotel room if there has been a dog in the place, without similar reactions. And animal allergies are not as uncommon as some believe.

Once every rental has to be pet friendly, where do the people with life threatening allergies live? One would hope that Fair Housing laws give more weight to issues that can cause death.

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